Press Digest: Canada - June 19

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19/06/2019 12:08

June 19 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from
selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL
    ** A coalition of environmentalists, Indigenous communities,
trade unionists and civic leaders in Canada vowed on Tuesday to
delay – and ultimately stop – construction of the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion. https://tgam.ca/2IqtSTB
    
    ** GMP Capital Inc's  GMP.TO  departing chief executive
officer, Harris Fricker, is set to receive a roughly C$7.5
million ($5.61 million) change-of-control payment after the
company's sale of its capital markets business. https://tgam.ca/2IoX5hU
                
    ** According to a new study by the Canadian Mental Health
Association (CMHA), nearly half of Canadian entrepreneurs say
mental-health issues interfere with their ability to work, with
one-third of business owners surveyed reported feeling depressed
at least once a week. https://tgam.ca/2IqxzZt
    
    ** U.S. activist investor Land & Buildings Investment
Management LLC, which last year owned an estimated 3 per cent of
Canada's Hudson's Bay Co  HBC.TO  shares, on Tuesday called the
offer of $9.45 a share from Mr. Baker and a group of HBC
majority shareholders to take the retailer private "woefully
inadequate." https://tgam.ca/2IrNgQl
       
    NATIONAL POST
    ** The Canadian federal government has announced it is
moving ahead with the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, ending
months of speculation over the development and offering some
relief to the embattled oil and gas sector amid a years-long
pipeline bottleneck. http://bit.ly/2IqDE8b
    
    ** United States representatives say they are seeking an
agricultural trade deal with Japan "within the next few months,"
a move that if it succeeds will likely wipe out the sizeable
advantage enjoyed by Canadian farmers under a new Asia Pacific
trade deal. http://bit.ly/2IqSImn

($1 = 1.3377 Canadian dollars)

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